On the Brink #[nn]

A sharp collection of editorial cartooning from 1986, this volume from Pharos Books packages the biting political wit of the Dayton Daily News between two covers. The cover cartoon says it all: a grinning group of OPEC representatives sits across a negotiating table from Western figures, a sign reading "Free Dishes with Every Barrel of OPEC Oil" planted squarely in front of them, as one declares, "I think we've got them where we want them…" It's a perfectly distilled snapshot of mid-1980s energy politics, rendered with the confident pen of a cartoonist who knew exactly how to land a punchline.